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The Confederate Memorial (also known as the Confederate Monument and Confederate Soldiers of Florida), was installed in
Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the ...
's
Hemming Park James Weldon Johnson Park is a public park in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Originally a village green, it was the first and is the oldest park in the city. History Beginnings The area was established as a public square in 1857 by Isaiah H ...
, in the United States. The monument was removed in June 2020.


Description

The tall structure is approximately wide, with a base measuring approximately x . The granite shaft is topped with a bronze statue of a young Confederate soldier, who wears a cap, coat, and caps, and stands with his arms resting on a rifle's barrel. Each of the base's four sides have relief panels and carvings. The front plaque has a bust of
John Jackson Dickison John Jackson Dickison, known as J. J. Dickison (March 27, 1816 – August 20, 1902), was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Dickison is mostly remembered as being the person who led the attack which resulted i ...
, and the back plaque features a bust of
Edmund Kirby Smith General Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824March 28, 1893) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department (comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana, Arizona Territory and the Indi ...
. One of the sides is decorated with an anchor and two crossed oars; the opposite side depicts a battle scene with soldiers on foot and horseback. The memorials is set within a rectangular pool. One of the inscriptions on the base reads:


History

St. James Park in downtown Jacksonville was renamed Hemming Park in 1899 in honor of Civil War veteran Charles C. Hemming, after he installed the -tall Confederate monument in the park in 1898. Hemming was born in Jacksonville. He later moved to
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and became a banker, making a fortune. The memorial is the oldest in the city and was the tallest at the time.City of Jacksonville website: Recreation and Community Services-Hemming Plaza
 An occurrence in February 1896 brought lasting change to St. James Park. At the state reunion of United Confederate Veterans (UCV) in Ocala, Charles C. Hemming announced his plan to erect a memorial in honor of Florida's Confederate soldiers. Though Hemming did not attend the dedication, General Fitzhugh Lee, the nephew of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was in the reviewing stand, and the grandson of Union General Ulysses S. Grant watched the unveiling from the piazza of the Windsor Hotel. In addition, both northern and southern troops from Camp Cuba Libre attended the ceremony, and much of the oratory concerned the reuniting of the North and South. The artwork was surveyed by the
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's " Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1995.


Removal

On June 9, 2020 the Confederate memorial was taken down after 122 years in the center of the park."Czachor, Emily.
Jacksonville Mayor Announces Plans to Remove City's Confederate Monuments, Rename Memorial Sites
," ''Newsweek.com,'' 9 June 2020. Accessed 9 June 2020.


See also

* List of memorials to Robert E. Lee *
List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests During the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. This occu ...


References

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